Outdoor Writers

Laurie Lee Dovey – AmmoLand Outdoor Writer Biography Series

Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 1:58 PM

Laurie Lee Dovey – AmmoLand Outdoor Writer Biography Series
“Telling tales of fishing, hunting, shooting, trapping and other American heritage sports. There’s nothing I’d rather do.” – LLD

Laurie Lee Dovey - This veteran journalists loves her job and life and isn't afraid to laugh at her self.

Johnstown, Pa. --(Ammoland.com)- Muck sucked at her legs, rear-end and waist. The brown goo was within an inch of topping her chest waders.

Arms splayed and one hand cemented by the muck to the handle of an equally entrenched 20- pound case full of camera gear, Laurie Lee Dovey was helpless, stuck.

The outdoor paparazzi enjoyed Dovey’s angst. Cameras clicking, flashes firing. Surely she was thinking, “Where might these images be shown, or worse, published?”

Yes, Dovey calls those photographers her friends. They’re fellow outdoor communicators. They relish catching each other in strange situations as they travel the swamps, mountains, forests and plains capturing the joys of the traditional outdoor sports – fishing, hunting, shooting and trapping – in words and images.

Dovey admits she doesn’t remember the stories she crafted that day. But says she cherishes the memory and her misfortune.

The life of an outdoor communicator is certainly fun, but when others in camp are napping mid-day or enjoying a campfire in the evening, those telling the story are working. In the instance described here, Dovey and two other questionably sane outdoor journalists negotiated a snake and mosquito infested Southern swamp to shoot white-tailed deer hunting photography, while the rest of the gang in camp enjoyed lunch, a power nap and an afternoon in the woods.

“I also cherish the memories of food poisoning, the result of a roadside hot dog stand; snake bite on the behind courtesy of a ‘Bama cottonmouth; falling head first while rushing to a downed turkey – caught on video and broadcast to the world; and so much more,” Dovey admits.
“This is real life in the outdoors. These are the stories I tell.”

This is yet another wild-and-wooly Dovey adventure, this time in Mexico. Ask her to tell you the story some time.

Dovey has worked as a freelance writer and photographer for a quarter century. The pages of magazines have been homes to more than 1,600 articles she’s gathered afield while hunting, fishing and shooting with consummate sportsmen and women, who allow her to share their expertise with others.

She has also served the outdoor industry as a magazine editor, newspaper columnist, television/video show host, scriptwriter, consultant and mentor.

“I’ve been blessed to write and photograph for scores of magazines and meet the most engaging, crazy and knowledgeable hunters, anglers, shooters and trappers along the way,” Dovey adds. “You see, I am by no means the outdoor expert. I’m simply the person who tells the story.”

Dovey continues to write for numerous magazines including her 10-year-plus stint as the corporate profiles columnist for the NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine. But, times they are a changin’ and so she.

Today, Dovey’s world involves:

Providing editorial content for websites like Suite101.com .
Developing editorial and marketing content for outdoor companies/organizations like Brownell’s, National Shooting Sports
Foundation, Remington Outdoor Foundation .
Shooting video snippets.
Serving as the executive director of the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) .
Mentoring up-and-coming outdoor communicators like Lisa Metheny, Kevin Reese, Darren Warner and Mitch Strobl .
Providing keynote addresses, usually focused on her bizarre adventures.
Teaching communications.
Consulting with companies regarding media relations.
Developing webinars and much more.

Professional Outdoor Media Association

Laurie Lee Dovey, in the 21st century, is a multi-media content provider, media specialist and “Jill of All Trades”. So, if you’re looking for a writer, photographer, editor, content creator, speaker or teacher, give Laurie Lee a shout, mailto: lld@lldovey.com.

She’ll get the job done.

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Steve Felgenhauer – AmmoLand Outdoor Writer Biography Series

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Steve Felgenhauer – AmmoLand Outdoor Writer Biography Series
“If shooting was involved I was into it.” – Steve Felgenhauer

Steve Felgenhauer

St. Louis, Missouri --(Ammoland.com)- Steve Felgenhauer is an up and coming freelance writer that focuses on writing about all things firearms – from product reviews to hunting and everything in between.

He has been in the firearms industry, wearing many different hats, for more than 20 years.

Felgenhauer was born in farm country in central eastern Ohio. By age three, he was following along behind his father, who was an avid hunter, angler and trapper. By the time he started elementary school, his outdoors education expanded to tagging along squirrel hunting and learning woodsmanship (which in modern times seems to be a lost art) long before firearms played much of a role in his life.

At the tender age of 10 firearms were introduced in the form of a hand- me-down BB gun. Felgenhauer never looked back. Firearms consumed him, while other kids were reading comics and playing baseball, he immersed himself in rifle ballistics and the outdoor writing greats like Jack O’Connor, Bob Milek and Peter Hathaway Capstick to name just a few. It didn’t take long before he was shooting .22s, centerfire rifles were the natural progression. By age 12, he was reloading his own shells mostly out of necessity to keep the local groundhog population thinned out.

Felgenhauer enjoyed shooting …period. If shooting was involved Felgenhauer was into it.

Upon graduating high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as an infantryman and was immersed in even, more firearms – in the form of M16s, M249 Squad Automatic Weapons, M240 Machine-guns and even the M2 .50 caliber machine guns. This did nothing, but fuel his love for firearms.

With no plans to reenlist and his future at a crossroads – and in need of a career where he could follow his passion – he noticed an ad for a gunsmithing school. Upon discharge he enrolled in the program at Piedmont Community College utilizing the GI Bill.

Gunsmithing school opened his eyes to machine shop practices, firearm refinishing and gun repair, not to mention new shooting disciplines. This overall, well-rounded, dose of gunsmithing included custom rifle work which became his new self-proclaimed weakness.

Felgenhauer soon began using his newly acquired gun smith skills to offset the expenses the GI Bill didn’t cover. Some 20 years later, he’s still gunsmithing as a profession.

With encouragement from a teacher at a local college, he began writing and soon found a group of like-minded writers. The passion of his first loves – firearms, hunting and the great outdoors – combined with writing where they fused together to set Felgenhauer down his current career path.

Steve enjoyed shooting …period. If shooting was involved Felgenhauer was into it.

Felgenhauer’s first article was published in a trade publication and soon afterward he secured a weekly writing gig in a small rural newspaper in Missouri. Felgenhauer worked under a tough, but fair editor who demanded the truth and non-biased writing. In return, Felgenhauer received $15 per week. The grind of consistently putting out copy, meeting deadlines and the dreaded rewriting of loose copy gave him an education in writing that could not be purchased at any price . It was soon after this that Felgenhauer made the jump to magazines articles.

Since then he has written hundreds of articles to include those featured in Gun Digest, AR Guns & Hunting, Bass Pro Shops OutdoorSite Library and an array of regional articles.

Felgenhauer writes about his passion, but has to intentionally watch his writing to keep his technical tangents in check. Much of Felgenhauer’s writing is firearm related though he does manage several fishing articles each year.

Recently Felgenhauer updated and created new curriculum for a well known gunsmithing school to include a chapter on AR rifles. In support of this new curriculum he created, filmed and edited videos on the subject of gunsmithing AR15′s for the program.

Felgenhauer remains true to his upbringing by not selling out and refuses to write untruths or give products a good review if their performance is less than stellar.